But this year, I wasn't relapsing from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, so instead of rereading all of Jane Austen's novels (which admittedly was fun last year), I spent the vacation hiking, kayaking, taking pictures, and otherwise having fun with all the Zoomlians!
So beautiful!So relaxing!
And I found manganese! The "mine" part of Crimora Mine Retreat is that the lake is an old flooded manganese mine, and many of the hiking trails are old mining roads.
Which means that there are plenty of roundish red lumps of manganese ore lying around!
We had a great time exploring the paths. Someone must have a paper map somewhere, but the lure of, "where does this unknown path go" is nigh irresistible.
There were also hundreds of tiny frogs in a hundred yard radius from the lake. Super cute!
Plus butterflies, large frogs, turtles and...two largish adolescent bears that (fortunately) went crashing off into the forest when we startled them.
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